Evangeline answered and headed to Wyoming. She wasn’t going to be an old maid, she declared. She’d always wanted children, but now that she was so old, she decided to care for someone else’s children.
Eutychus Dempsey, a widower, lost his wife as she gave birth to their twin girls. Raised in the church all his life, he knew God had an answer, but after waiting six months, he found only one answer. . . to his advertisement. He told her to come.
Evangeline wasn’t sure, but she knew she wouldn’t let any man tell her what to do, and when the preacher came for a visit, she got a little worried.
Eutychus understood the preacher, but he didn’t like the idea proposed. Sometimes God’s ways aren’t ours, but the preacher was right. Living in the house with him didn’t look suitable for the housekeeper. So, he married her.
He didn’t understand what would happen when he tied himself to her.